[Freegis-list] ogr2ogr: csv to shpefile (newby question)

[Mateusz Łoskot]

Tomas Zajc wrote:
> I could finally install gdal and ogr on slackware. I'm now trying to convert 
> some csv to shapefiles. For that I'm using the following comand:
> 
>  ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" out coal.csv
> 
> where coal csv is:
> 
> unknown,na,id,id2,mark,coalkey,coalkey2,x,y
> 0.000,0.000,1,1,7,87,87,76.90238,51.07161
> 0.000,0.000,2,2,7,110,110,78.53851,50.69403
> 0.000,0.000,3,3,3,112,112,83.22586,71.24420
> 
> I'm getting the following error:
> 
> ERROR 4: Unable to open out/coal.shp or out/coal.SHP

I've just checked on Windows and this command should work.
I use ogr2ogr from FWTools package (http://fwtools.maptools.org) as follows:

ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" out.shp coal.csv

As a result I got *one* DBF file out.dbf with data from coal.csv.

> and an out directory with a coal.dbf file. I need to generate the three files.

You won't get 3 files, only 1 .dbf.

> Any suggestion?

I'd suggest you to report the problem on GDAL/OGR list:
gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org

(include version numbers of GDAL/OGR you are using)

Cheers
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Mateusz Łoskot
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